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2023 Spring Term

1-3 Units

Art History 496

Variable topics. Group activity. Not offered regularly in the curriculum but offered on topics selected on the basis of timeliness, need, and interest, and generally in the format of regularly scheduled Catalog offerings. Repeatable.

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01T-LEC 2384
3 Units
01/23 - 05/06 (1) MW 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Ashley Dimmig
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Through illustrated lectures and critical group discussions, students will investigate the art, architecture, and material culture of the major metropolis now known as Istanbul, over a thousand years, with particular focus on the early modern and modern periods. Beginning with the archaeological remains of early inhabitants unearthed in the process of building a new metro station, we will trace the long history of this imperial city situated at the crux of Europe and Asia. From the founding of 'New Rome' by Constantine the Great in 330 CE, continuing through the Byzantine-era iconoclasms, the Ottoman conquest in 1453, and the so-called 'Magnificent Century' of Sultan Su'leyman I (r. 1520'1566), into the age of railways and photography, when antiquities laws were enacted and imperial museums founded; we will conclude with a critical analysis of the contemporary phenomenon dubbed 'Ottomania,' or a craze for all things Ottoman in twenty-first-century Turkey. The final paper will focus on the representation of the art, architecture, and material culture of historical Istanbul in a select piece of contemporary popular culture (choose from a novel, season of television, or a film).
PREREQ: ARTHIST 201 OR 202 OR 203

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